He told the ECHO in 2011: “My dream as a kid was always to go to the Tour but growing up I never really believed it would happen.” Austin Healey The heroics of fellow Wirral rider Chris Boardman, who followed up Olympic gold on the track in 1992 by winning the prologue of the Tour de France two years later, also inspired Cummings. He was a member of Team GB’s men’s road race team at the Rio Olympics, who were unfortunate not to win a medal after an incredible 241.5km endurance test. Steve from Clatterbridge, formerly raced for Birkenhead North End Cycling Club, and has won stages of the Tour De France as well as Commonwealth, Olympic and World Championship medals. She was made a CBE in the Queen’s birthday honours in 1988.
In 1972 she went on to become principal soprano with English National Opera, singing a wide range of roles from Mozart to Puccini. She made her her debut as Frasquita in Georges Bizet’s Carmen in Salzburg with the Landes Theatre Opera Company, where she spent a season in 1963. She also studied for a year in Milan with the soprano Adelaide Saraceni. Renowned soprano Valerie Masterson was born in Birkenhead and studied in Liverpool before going on to the Royal College of Music. A week later his album was at number one and he went on to pick up a string of awards.
The song came to the notice of chat show host Pat Kenny in Dublin, who invited Charlie to perform on his popular Kenny Show Live in 1995. He worked as a teacher while writing and performing on a semi-professional basis, but his career took off after his song What Colour is the Wind was played on radio in Northern Island. Adrian Henriīirkenhead country singer Charlie Landsborough is a huge country star in the USA, but struggled for three decades before achieving success. He wrote 400 works including four symphonies and three operas. The composer, author and poet was born in Oxton in 1879 and showed a talent for music from an early age. His stage production of The Flint Street Nativity broke box office records at the Liverpool Playhouse during the pantomime season of 2006.įirth also penned Border Café and Kinky Boots and in 2004 was made a Lipa companion in recognition of his contributions to the world of art and entertainment. The Wirral creator of All Quiet on the Preston Front, Calendar Girls and Neville’s Island began writing when he was 18 on a course in Yorkshire run by Willy Russell and Danny Hiller. He started his radio career at BBC Radio Merseyside aged 21 and recently cut back on his late nights on Radio City, after 38 years with the company. He originally wanted to be a chef, and while at Hoylake Parade School asked if he could be excused from metalwork so he could take up cookery.Īfter school Pete went to the food technology department at Birkenhead Tech, where he says he “passed several exams for the first time in my life” and even won a national ice-cream making competition. He is the voice of Liverpool on the airwaves but broadcaster and entertainer Pete grew up in Wirral.
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